Ya sorry about that i do use Imail i did use NTMail till they blew the price
out of the water.
Sorry about that.
Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Scot Desort
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 9:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] DNS Question
Scott-
First, I hope you made a typo in your email below --- you said you are using
NTMail. This is an Ipswitch IMAIL list :-). Perhaps this question should be
posted to the isp-nt list. But I reply to you here with a few comments.
It is very difficult to understand your zone file layouts as you have
explained them below. It might have been better to actually post the
relavent portions of your actual zone files. But as far as some email not
getting delivered to some domains, it is most likely a reverse DNS issue. If
your *IMAIL* server's FQDN is mail.planetinterlink.com, the REVERSE DNS
entry for 207.228.126.171 should also read mail.planetinterlink.com
171 IN PTR mail.planetinterlink.com.
As far as not being able to ping the domain name without www, you need an @
address record. In BIND DNS for NT, it looks like this:
@ IN A 207.228.126.173
I assume there is something similar in MSDNS, but I have no idea how you
would enter it in that GUI.
CNAMES are really just aliases. You must have an A record for each host in a
domain. I do not believe a CNAME record can point to an IP address. Only A
records can. So CNAME records without A records will get you no where. I'm
no DNS expert, but I think I'm pretty close. Len Conrad will probably jump
in and correct any of my mistakes.
Good luck.
--
Scot
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Imail (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 9:26 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] DNS Question
> Hi I am new to the dns stuff and what to know how to do this correctly. I
> have my domain domain1.com, i also host 20 domains for others mostly email
> only. I have 4 IP address. The way i have it now. all w2K boxes
> 207.228.85.86 ns1.activeinfosystems.com DNS and routing gatway
> 207.228.126.171 ns1.planetinterlink.com email server
> 207.228.126.173 web.planetinterlink.com
>
> so what I have is for each domain that i host
> host mail point to ns1.planetintelrink.com people check their email with
> mail.planetinterlink.com
> host www point to web.planetinterlink.com this hosts all websites so I
make
> a host name www for each domain that points to this server.
> mx record for each domain that points to mail.planetintelrink.com
>
> In NTMail i have each domain hosted as a virual domain using hte IP
address
> of the server
>
> I send email fine except to some domains but most work on all domains. I
> use windows 2000 DNS server ( should i use a third party.?) the other
thing
> is i can not ping just the domain on any that i host such as
> planetinterlink.com but i can ping mail.planetinterlink.com.
> Should i be using CNAMES for virual domain instead of host names.? I have
> read about settign up DNS stuff but nothing talk about if you have 30
domain
> and ony 3 IP's
> Any help would be a big help
>
> Thanks
> Scott
>
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